Scotland loses to India in one-day international cricket match

August 16, 2007

India defeated Scotland by seven wickets in a One-Day International at Titwood, Glasgow, Scotland.

Scotland were reduced to 49-4 after losing the opening batsmen cheaply followed by the loss of Watson and Haq in quick succession. However a rain delay shortened the Scotland innings to 46 overs. Scottish batsmen Gavin Hamilton and Neil McCallum shared a partnership of 82 runs and Craig Wright hit 37 off 34 balls to help Scotland to 203-9 after 46 overs.

India comfortably reached the revised Duckworth-Lewis target of 209 runs from 46 overs despite some good initial fielding from Scotland and the loss of three wickets. Robin Uthappa scored a half century while Gautam Gambhir scored 85 runs. India won the match by seven wickets with 37 balls to spare.

India will play a seven-match tour of England later this month, having already won the Test series earlier this week.

An associate member of the ICC, Scotland missed a chance to play against a full member country in July when a match against Pakistan was abandoned due to rain.

Toss: India won, and chose to field first

Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Poonia, 4.2 ov), 2-22 (Watts, 7.6 ov), 3-49 (Watson, 13.6 ov), 4-49 (Haq, 14.1 ov), 5-131 (McCallum, 32.6 ov), 6-146 (Smith, 36.2 ov), 7-178 (Hamilton, 42.6 ov), 8-198 (Wright, 45.1 ov), 9-199 (Blain, 45.4 ov)

Did not bat: M S Dhoni, Piyush Chawla, A B Agarkar, R R Powar, R P Singh, M M Patel

Fall of wickets: 1-104 (Uthappa, 20.2 ov), 2-137 (Karthik, 29.3 ov), 3-198 (Yuvraj Singh, 37.4 ov)

Scotland: D F Watts, N S Poonia, R R Watson (capt), R M Haq, G M Hamilton, N F I McCallum, C J O Smith (wkt), C M Wright, J A R Blain, P J C Hoffmann, J D Nel

India: R V Uthappa, G Gambhir, K D Karthik, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid (capt), M S Dhoni (wkt), Piyush Chawla, A B Agarkar, R R Powar, R P Singh, M M Patel

Player of the match: G Gambhir (India)

Umpires: I J Gould (England) and I L Howell (South Africa) Match referee: R S Madugalle (Sri Lanka)